After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>> Audited schmaudited. Let the community do the auditing. It's cheaper.
>
> OSDL is funded by giants such as IBM and Intel. These companies want
> something in return for their investment. A formal auditing process gives
> them legal coverage, as well as confidence in the packages they deploy
> in-house, as well as customers' computer base. Debian is extremely popular
> among servers.
But Red Hat believes the current level of auditing is not sufficient.
> I wonder how the closed-source, proprietary and commercial paradigm ever
> emerged in the first place. Wikipedia says it is Bill Gates who started the
> whole hoi polloi, arguing that closed-source would encourage the creation of
> good software (*cough* Internet Explorer).
I wouldn't put trust in the wordage of Billy Bitrot even if he told me
"Linux rocks!"
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